Challenging the flawed gospel of political polling.

The Tea Party didn't care about any of the polling, and they replaced about 1,000 incumbent Republicans who were moderates with right-wingers. They were able to get their vision of politics through. And I think more people in the US share my understanding of politics - more redistributive, more just, less punitive - and the Democrats have been doing a great job of telling us to shut up, listen to the polls and don't challenge existing incumbents.

Political scientist Susan Kang explains how a technocratic over-reliance on political polling blinds politicians, the media and citizens alike to the possibilities of political and social progress, then updates us on a local fight against NY state politicians positioning themselves as progressives while blocking single payer and reproducive rights policies.